In 1969, when Marla Medders and her six big brothers saw the Statler Brothers on the Johnny Cash Show on TV, and they were the background singers. Marla found the scrapbook of them performing.
In 1970, Marla met the Statler Brothers after touring with Johnny Cash is over, they asked her and her six big brothers to tour. Marla likes country and gospel.
Written by the Reid Brothers, Harold and Don (of the Statler Brothers), the real one features Harold's class of 1957, and the fiction features Lonnie's same class.